‼️toronto There are reliable reports of an individual found deceased, frozen near the 519 a few days ago. Of course outreach workers have heard about this through their contacts. Apparently an autopsy is being performed….2

Last night with #toronto warming surge sites open the number of ppl in the warming centres jumped from 244 to 301. This am @cityoftoronto closed the surge sites. 👎🥶

Pls sign. migrantrights.ca/actionslist/...

Dear Auston Mathews, Were you one of the lugs on TEAM USA who laughed at the Women's Team? We will know if you show up at the White House to kiss Trump's ring. If you do, don't bother coming back to Toronto. We like real sportsmen. Not MAGA Americans. Ask Gretzky for advice.

@progresstoronto.bsky.social @planningtoronto.bsky.social @torontorbot.bsky.social Etc.

👎 #toronto I actually think AI might do a better job than City Hall. My ‘Alexa’ just went ‘ding’ and sent me a weather warning. Winds gusting to 50K. Windchill -16C tonight. 🥶 Yet @cityoftoronto closed 3 surge #warmingcentres despite historic high use when they are open.

Marty Lang describing what it was like to build one of the John van Nostrand tiny ‘pilot’ homes >25 years ago #toronto. 2026 we’re still waiting to build.

From ‘Dying for a Home. Homeless Activists Speak Out’. Marty Lang describing the aftermath of the Tent City eviction. #toronto

No one is stick handling this at City Hall to make it work. #intentionalincompetence

28 years of neglect by all 3 levels of gov’t. In #ThunderBay @redcrosscanada.bsky.social waits for a phone call and city officials will write a report. Meanwhile shelter rights denied. People, disproportionately Indigenous, will continue to die.

Phew. ❄️ This is a welcome change of practice. Normally they would open 5 pm tomorrow and only if criteria met.

”The city of Toronto had contracts with OCS worth about $40 million through to the end of 2027." except it was not a real security company. torontostarreplica.pressreader.com/article/2815...

The sharpest column I’ve read in recent months in the Star on any subject. 👍

#Torontohenge today. www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/scie...

My friend wrote this book and it’s just nuts that it seems to be out of print. 🇨🇦 #flagday www.hgdistribution.com/products/a-f...

Please, here is how you can help. Cathy

Finally, it happened. #toronto closes ALL remaining warming centres. 👎 Why? Because they consider it warm enough. City does not respect the right to shelter or the science of health impacts of #homelessness. @MayorOliviaChow @BravoDavenport PS ⚠️ windchill -19C + freezing drizzle risk

My take on this: “The city #toronto does not ensure adequate safe shelter year long so it should have taken greater care to protect the Better Living Centre as an emergency shelter venue instead of office space for the #FIFA circus.” #breadnotcircuses www.cp24.com/local/toront...

Why is Toronto’s provision of shelter weather based in the first place? Great interviews with @HavenTorontoCA @lorrainelamchop @c_shadowspaces www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

#FIFA trumps chronic emergency #homeless shelter need. #toronto 'Exhibition Place respite centre for homeless Torontonians to close before end of winter season due to FIFA World Cup booking.' Full Toronto Star scoop here: archive.ph/2Sq8U

Shelter chaos. Again.

#Toronto closes 3 ‘surge’ warming centres that shelter roughly 100 people because weather will ‘warm’ to above -15C. #righttoshelter Should not be temp based. @MayorOliviaChow @BravoDavenport

Trump’s behaviours of brutal, harmful actions and communications are escalating. He needs a psych assessment and should be impeached.

‼️ DougJohnson Hatlem is reporting this on X. “Toronto is closing Better Living Centre as makeshift homeless shelter (prev. reported) to set it up as HQ for FIFA for Toronto’s portion of the World Cup (prev unreported).” @mayoroliviachow.ca @alejandrabravo.bsky.social #breadnotcircuses

#Toronto An eighth warming centre opened last night at John Innes CC. 349 ppl were in these sites compared to 312 the night before. Proof it was needed. They were still over capacity at 101%. More effort is needed.

@shimonpro.bsky.social pls don’t use the word paranoid to describe Minnesotans fear. The use of the word doesn’t fit the definition of the local reality.

Breaking news. #toronto

‼️Media did a great disservice making so much of Mel Lastman calling for help snow clearing 27 years ago. Military helping all across US with no stigma attached. It’s called aid. “Always ready. Always there”.

#Nurse2NurseSolidarity #AlexPretti 💔

For my #Toronto friends. #sheltershortfall

#Nurse2NurseSolidarity 🇨🇦 Wednesday January 28.

Please help with this advocacy.

#Toronto #facts #homeless 👎No warming centres in Etobicoke. 👎39 people denied shelter on average through Central Intake daily. 👎Warming centres operating at unhealthy 106% capacity Sunday. 👎unhealthy = high tensions, poor sleep, high noise levels, inadequate health supports onsite.

Not surprisingly, I received a personal call yesterday from Councillor @joshmatlow.bsky.social I always appreciate his attention to these issues.

‼️Toronto reports 321 ppl in the 7 warming sites last night, Jan 25. That is 106.6% capacity. While the policy directive is to not turn anyone away, you can imagine how difficult the conditions are. Relief in the form of an additional site is needed. www.toronto.ca/city-governm...

#solidarity in mourning. 🇨🇦 nursesunions.ca/statement-on...

Monday morning. Awaiting the identical 26 responses from city councillors + mayor once they get their prepared statements from TSSS General Manager.

He said, she said. #toronto www.torontotoday.ca/local/crime-...

January 24 I wrote #Toronto City Council. The current effort of cramming #homeless people into existing overcrowded #shelters, in some cases only offering a chair for overnight would not be considered acceptable in a refugee camp.

💔ICU nurse shot and killed. apnews.com/live/minneap...

Year after year sufficient shelter denied. #toronto

Toronto public health official, rather than advocating for additional emergency shelters to open in a ‼️extreme cold storm alert, suggests emergency rooms and subways are backup. @mayoroliviachow.ca Warming centres at 103%.

In 2007 @CBC The Current host @avilewis.ca interviewed myself + Dri, one of the activists from #TentCity. Avi is one of the best interviewers ever. Dri's voice is like velvet. Give a listen. 22'. #RIPower Dri. Miss you. #ThrowbackThursday #funfriday www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBxg...

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

Theo Moudakis, Toronto Star

This week. #toronto #homeless #righttoshelter

48 stories. #miningthesky

‼️”The Health Ministry says that the homeless, those living in a detention centre + those living under the same roof as a person with the disease have an increased risk of catching the disease.” #toronto had an outbreak in the past + an inquest. It’s just a matter of time. #congregateshelters

There’s one thing we should remember every time a severe snowstorm hits. Bandaids don't stop the bleeding. Here we go again. Toronto’s annual open-and-shut Band-Aid operation of emergency shelters for inclement weather. My full article here: archive.ph/xzhhN

This storm predicted yesterday. Why @mayoroliviachow.ca can these sites not open earlier than 5pm? @paulafletcherto.bsky.social @chrismoise.ca @ausmalik.bsky.social @joshmatlow.bsky.social @shjntoronto.bsky.social